Philadelphia Orchestra は今春破産申請をして，将来を懸念されていましたが，ちょっとびっくりするニュースが報じられていました．これで財政健全化へ大きく飛躍しそうです．
Philadelphia Orchestra は第２次世界大戦後，初めて，1973年に中国を訪問したアメリカのOrchestra でしたが，中国のクラシック・フアン人口が，このところ急速に発展していることはつとに知られていました．
そのさらなる拡大を見越して，中国出身の天才ピアニスト，Lang Lang, Yuja Wang等に，世界のレコード会社が争奪戦を演じたことは周知の事実です．
その中国には，大都市が競って次々と優れた大コンサートホールを開設しているのですが，箱物の増大にそれを活用する楽団や音楽家が，全然．追いついていないのが現状です．
そこで，Philadelphia Orchestra が乗り出して，北京を初めとした中国大都市での演奏会と，実践教育プログラムを提供する契約が締結されたというのです．
The Philadelphia Orchestra will spend a week in China next May, giving performances, coaching sessions, master classes and workshops, the orchestra said. The visit is the first of what the orchestra called a “pilot partnership” with the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. (Its president, Chen Ping, pictured, shakes hands with Allison Vulgamore, president of the orchestra.)
(Philadelphia Orchestra) now joins a growing number of Western cultural institutions establishing ties in a country with a hunger for Western classical music. As China builds more and more halls in its many big cities, the need for high-level performers has increased, and in many cases engagements in China provide much-needed cash for Western ensembles.
と，そこから期待される潤沢な現金収入に大きな期待がかかっているといえます．
Arts, Briefly
Philadelphia Orchestra Is Heading to China
Published: September 23, 2011
Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press
Chen Ping, left, president of the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Allison Vulgamore, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The Philadelphia Orchestra will spend a week in China next May, giving performances, coaching sessions, master classes and workshops, the orchestra said. The visit is the first of what the orchestra called a “pilot partnership” with the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. (Its president, Chen Ping, pictured, shakes hands with Allison Vulgamore, president of the orchestra.) The Philadelphia Orchestra was the first major American orchestra to perform in China, in 1973, and now joins a growing number of Western cultural institutions establishing ties in a country with a hunger for Western classical music. As China builds more and more halls in its many big cities, the need for high-level performers has increased, and in many cases engagements in China provide much-needed cash for Western ensembles.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: September 28, 2011
Because of an editing error, a report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Saturday about the Philadelphia Orchestra’s planned trip to China in May misspelled the surname of the orchestra’s president. She is Allison Vulgamore, not Vulagmore.
